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Field

Chinese history

Expertise

Middle Period China, Late Imperial China, Women's History, the History of Material Culture

Biography

Inspired by my international history education in China and the United States,
I am interested in a broad range of topics in middle period and late imperial
Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of family and kinship,
local society, material culture and gender. My current manuscript reconstructs
the complexities of elite and non-elite women's everyday lives during the
Song Dynasty, from 960 to 1279. I draw upon a wide range of previously untapped
sources—including archaeological reports, epitaphs, museum collections,
paintings, poetry, and excavations of women's tombs—to recover the diversity
of women's experience of the life course, from childhood socialization to death,
and the artifacts that women produced, transmitted, and consumed, including
cosmetics, dress, kitchen goods, and jewelry. Besides the exploration of
gendered objects, places, and space in middle period China, I have been thinking
about the construction of women's knowledge in encyclopedias in late imperial China.

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2010

M.A. Peking University, 2002

B.A. Peking University, 1999

Fellowships

de Bary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Heyman Center for the
Humanities, Columbia University, 2010-2011

Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 2002-2010

CLIR Mellon Research Fellowship, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006-2007

CU Mellon Travel Fellowship, Columbia University, 2006-2007

Major Publications

"Inner Affairs and Outer Affairs: Women's Economic Activities
in Local Communities of Fujian during the Song Period" (in Japanese),
Studies of Chinese Women's History (Japan), in press, 2012.

"Gender and Burial in Imperial China: An Investigation of Women's
Space in Fujian Tombs of the Song Era (960-1279)", NAN NÜ: Men,
Women and Gender in China, 13 (2011): 1-51.

"Inner and Outer: Elite Women and Their Natal
Families in Fujian Circuit of Song Dynasty" (in Japanese),
Studies of Chinese Women's History (Japan), vol.14. 2005.